Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives

Carmenta, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-4147, Coomes, David A., DeClerck, Fabrice A. J., Hart, Abigail K., Harvey, Celia A., Milder, Jeff, Reed, James, Vira, Bhaskar and Estrada-Carmona, Natalia (2020) Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives. One Earth, 2 (2). pp. 174-187. ISSN 2590-3322

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Abstract

Sustainability agendas increasingly recognize that attaining conservation and development outcomes demands greater integration across sectors. Integrated landscape initiatives (ILIs) are a leading approach to reconciling multiple objectives. However, a characterization of the diversity of approaches under the ILI umbrella and the comparative performance of different types of approach is lacking. Here, we analyze questionnaire data obtained from project proponents to delimit four particular types of ILI: one type was dominated by agricultural interventions and another by conservation interventions, and these partially integrated ILIs engage local scales of governance; the remaining two types exhibit strong integration, with aims and actions across multiple sectors and scales of governance. We show that integrated projects were deemed to be more successful by project proponents. The typology offers the practitioner and research community an explicit set of strategies for selection, evaluation, and support and attests to the need for integration to achieve sustainable outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: latin america,biodiversity,conservation,food security,governance,landscape approach,livelihoods,sustainability,tropical forests,environmental science(all),earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous),sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2020 07:17
Last Modified: 13 May 2023 17:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76855
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.01.009

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